People fail to understand the difficulty involved with providing enough server capacity for something like that. Especially considering that within a week or two, you won't need half or more of the capacity that you would've liked to have had at launch. So, although it looks kind of bad at start, just like with GTA Online, traffic will eventually level out, and things will be "normal".

ekdikeo4:People fail to understand the difficulty involved with providing enough server capacity for something like that. Especially considering that within a week or two, you won't need half or more of the capacity that you would've liked to have had at launch. So, although it looks kind of bad at start, just like with GTA Online, traffic will eventually level out, and things will be "normal".

Nonsense. We need to scrap the whole thing and start over. Preferably with a solution that involves poorhouses and debtor's prison. Because soshulism.

ekdikeo4:People fail to understand the difficulty involved with providing enough server capacity for something like that. Especially considering that within a week or two, you won't need half or more of the capacity that you would've liked to have had at launch. So, although it looks kind of bad at start, just like with GTA Online, traffic will eventually level out, and things will be "normal".

As much as I chuckle about 'the cloud' and SaaS, this is exactly the sort of problems those concepts are designed to overcome.

vpb:PainInTheASP: Nonsense. We need to scrap the whole thing and start over. Preferably with a solution that involves poorhouses and debtor's prison. Because soshulism.

So, stealing the tax money to pay for these free houses and prison for the poor from the job creators is what you want?

That sounds like facislamic socialism.

We can use eminent domain to requisition the properties, then have the inmates fix the houses up. Hell, I could buy up half of Detroit with fifty bucks and have enough left over for a blowjob and a coke. Call it "urban renewal".

This IT farkup was actually part of the Republican strategy. I remember the Teabagger arguments for not creatinga state-run exchange, and in addition to the obvious point of refusing to cooperate with Obamanism, they thought that they could overburden the federal system and cause it to fail, giving them another excuse to repeal Obamacare.

Servers and IT support cost money, and not much was budgeted for the federal exchange because they originally thought that few, if any, states would willingly cede control of their exchanges to the federal government. Of course now that they have, the obvious solution would be to ask Congress for some additional funding to support the rollout of Obamacare. I'm sure they'll get right on that.

netringer:rev. dave: Explain what is load testing and why did no one bother to do any serious load testing.

This is the load testing. Doh.

They did say that they assumed a peak demand of twice Medicare.gov's all-time peak demand, which equates to 60,000 concurrent users. They said the demand has consistently been about 250,000 concurrent users. The problem isn't the ability to handle expected load, the problem is that the expected load was far smaller than their current, actual load.

What they really should have done is to stagger the rollout based on something like last name or zip code, to smooth out the demand spikes.

I've worked for software companies that produced software for use by the US government and I've worked at software companies that produced software for use by the private sector. The differences were staggering and confirmed every stereotype about the government workers you've ever heard. Utterly depressing.

TuteTibiImperes:If anything this just shows how wildly popular the ACA is, so while it's inconvenient, it's a good sign.

The Republican Talking Point is that entire storm of traffic to the exchanges was almost entirely the media and Congressional offices, because everyday people are rejecting them en-masse.

Then again, these are the same people who thought Unskewed Polls were the "real" way that the 2012 election would turn out, that global warming is "junk science", and that the Iraqi people would cheer us and celebrate us as liberators and the post-war occupation would be quick and easy. They aren't known for the best working relationship with facts.

Fubini:netringer: rev. dave: Explain what is load testing and why did no one bother to do any serious load testing.

This is the load testing. Doh.

They did say that they assumed a peak demand of twice Medicare.gov's all-time peak demand, which equates to 60,000 concurrent users. They said the demand has consistently been about 250,000 concurrent users. The problem isn't the ability to handle expected load, the problem is that the expected load was far smaller than their current, actual load.

What they really should have done is to stagger the rollout based on something like last name or zip code, to smooth out the demand spikes.

Silverstaff:TuteTibiImperes: If anything this just shows how wildly popular the ACA is, so while it's inconvenient, it's a good sign.

The Republican Talking Point is that entire storm of traffic to the exchanges was almost entirely the media and Congressional offices, because everyday people are rejecting them en-masse.

Then again, these are the same people who thought Unskewed Polls were the "real" way that the 2012 election would turn out, that global warming is "junk science", and that the Iraqi people would cheer us and celebrate us as liberators and the post-war occupation would be quick and easy. They aren't known for the best working relationship with facts.

So... How is a minimum wage worker supposed to afford these private health plans?

Conspiracy!------------------------------One possible cause of the problems is that hitting "apply" on HealthCare.gov causes 92 separate files, plug-ins and other mammoth swarms of data to stream between the user's computer and the servers powering the government website, said Matthew Hancock, an independent expert in website design. He was able to track the files being requested through a feature in the Firefox browser.Of the 92 he found, 56 were JavaScript files, including plug-ins that make it easier for code to work on multiple browsers (such as Microsoft Corp's Internet Explorer and Google Inc's Chrome) and let users upload files to HealthCare.gov.

It is not clear why the upload function was included.

"They set up the website in such a way that too many requests to the server arrived at the same time," Hancock said.

He said because so much traffic was going back and forth between the users' computers and the server hosting the government website, it was as if the system was attacking itself.

Hancock described the situation as similar to what happens when hackers conduct a distributed denial of service, or DDOS, attack on a website: they get large numbers of computers to simultaneously request information from the server that runs a website, overwhelming it and causing it to crash or otherwise stumble. "The site basically DDOS'd itself," he said.

Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom:Silverstaff: TuteTibiImperes: If anything this just shows how wildly popular the ACA is, so while it's inconvenient, it's a good sign.

The Republican Talking Point is that entire storm of traffic to the exchanges was almost entirely the media and Congressional offices, because everyday people are rejecting them en-masse.

Then again, these are the same people who thought Unskewed Polls were the "real" way that the 2012 election would turn out, that global warming is "junk science", and that the Iraqi people would cheer us and celebrate us as liberators and the post-war occupation would be quick and easy. They aren't known for the best working relationship with facts.

So... How is a minimum wage worker supposed to afford these private health plans?

You're saying the subsidy for 100-400% of the poverty level isn't enough?